Week Ending 1/11/19

Happy Friday!
Our first week back has been great!  We're back in the groove of things after a nice and relaxing vacation.

Important information:

• Weather - Please remember that students go out for lunch almost every recess.  If there is snow, they must have hats, gloves, boots, and snow pants to play in the snow and be on the field.  Also, with the chilly temperatures, please be sure your child has a hat and gloves or mittens.
• If you would like to donate some cray-pas to the class, we'd love it! I hope to use them next week during our Art in Morning reading on Friday.
• Be sure to check out the email sent to you earlier this week regarding Kaleidoscope bag.  Each week one student will take the bag home Friday-Wednesday.  It's a great opportunity to read or do activities with your child!
• Going home today, your child may have a list of sight words with some highlighted.  These are words that should be practiced regularly throughout the week.  These are words we have covered in Fundations but they still need some practice.  Some of the errors may be spelling errors or some may be rushing and not paying careful attention, so practicing daily will be helpful to encourage consistency in accurate spelling.

3, 2, 1 things you should know about our week...

3 math activities we worked on were playing Get to 100 and then proving our math was correct by using addition strategies to add up to 100, adding up to $1.00 while playing the Collect $1.00 game, and showing our work while problem solving (reading carefully to determine if you need to add or subtract and showing work in two ways in the most efficient way possible).

2 literacy strategies we worked on were determining what's most important versus what's interesting in our non-fiction books and putting important information in our own words.  Both of these strategies are important to reading because they focus on reading carefully and showing our understanding of the text.  We read a Time for Kids about Helen Keller and also learned few important Mexico facts during our lessons this week.  

*Ask your child which non-fiction book they used to create their water color picture this morning.

1 social studies activity we completed was flying to Mexico!  We gathered with the other second grades to take off, watch an in flight movie, and then land in Mexico.  Before we could leave the library we had to go through customs!  They loved it!

Here's some pics of our Art in Reading activities today...